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European Leaders Fawn Over Trump at Ukraine Talks

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News, Daily News, Politics, News Commentary

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his European allies have met with Donald Trump for a charm offensive.

Plus: Massive anti-war protests rock Israel, the ONS declares average rents in England to be unaffordable, and author Sally Rooney has been reported to the police over her support for Palestine Action.

With Aaron Bastani and Tadhg Hickey.

Transcript

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Hello, good evening. Welcome. This is Navaralive. I am Aramani. Tonight, I'm joined by Tegickey. Take, how are we?

0:25.1

How's it going, Aaron? Not too bad, man. Just kind of slowly losing my mind like the rest of us, I suppose.

0:29.9

Well, for some of us, it's not slowly at all, actually, but maybe we'll talk about that a little bit later on the last story tonight. I have to say is rather strange. Coming up on tonight's show, massive anti-war protests are underway across

0:42.4

Israel. The Office for All National Statistics has found the average rent in England to be

0:46.8

unaffordable. Author Sally Rooney has been reported to the police over her pledge to support

0:52.4

Palestine action. Stay tuned for all of that and more.

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1:13.1

in our life. Let's go to our first story tonight. Last night, Vladimir Zelensky and key European

1:18.9

allies sat down with Donald Trump to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine, just one day after the US

1:24.5

president's meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

1:32.5

In attendance were British Prime Minister Kirstama, German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz,

1:37.6

French President Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Georgia Maloney in Finland's Alexander Stube,

1:43.0

along with NATO, Secretary General Mark Rutter and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

1:47.3

And they seem to have decided in advance that, when it comes to Trump,

1:50.5

flattery will indeed get you absolutely everywhere.

1:54.6

Here's a compilation of European leaders doing some grade A forening.

1:59.0

I really want to thank you, President of the United States, dear Donald,

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